Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

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• Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Good
  • Country
  • Business

• Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

  

  Tablo
  • Love
  • You
  • Doing

• For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Friend
  • Shoes
  • Clothes

• A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Good
  • End
  • Street

• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Know

• The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

  

  Ice T
  • Last
  • Tyranny
  • Bear

• He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Never

• Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Myself
  • Try
  • Season

• I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Start
  • Make
  • Come

• If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Stage
  • Going

• I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Research
  • Reaction

• I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Place
  • Underdog

• All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • Care
  • Listening

• I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Attention

• I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Father
  • Man

• I think I made this decision that I just loved making music, and it didn't matter what level I got to do it on, and 'Fight Song' was this declaration that I'm going to keep going, and I'm going to keep believing in myself, even if it seems like it's impossible.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Song
  • Myself

• True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Men
  • Wish

• If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Listening
  • Understand
  • Questioning

• Not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • True
  • Words
  • Clever

• Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

  

  Stephen Covey
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